Peter Cook

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Rating: ★★★½
Jun 8, 2001Post-Holocaust Absurdist Comedy
Richard Lester adapts an absurdist Spike Milligan play set in the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust where the survivors are mutating into animals and items of furniture. A film with a really bizarre sense of humour that most at the time did not get
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Supergirl (1984)

Supergirl (1984)
Rating: ★
Jul 5, 2000Comic-Book Superheroine
The Christopher Reeve Superman films started superbly but became wrecked by the producers' insistence on the insertion of comedy element. Here they turn their attentions to Superman's cousin Kara whose screen debut is derailed by a horrendously overacting Faye Dunaway
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The Princess Bride (1987)

The Princess Bride (1987)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 6, 2002Fairytale Romance/Swashbuckler
Swashbuckling fairytale that treads a fine line between deconstruction and parody, while reveling in a script where the dialogue positively dances. Perfectly cast - a film that few do not come out enjoying its ebullient fantasy
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